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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M. Fotiberf s Extenuation of this Difficulty, I believe where a Bladder is fmall, and a Stone very large, which is fometimes the Cafe, a proper Opening of the Bladder, by means of a Trocar, will appear to be pre¬ carious. I find this Objection has already been confidered; for a certain Author has propofed, as an Improvement on the Operation, that the external Incifion ffiould be firft made with a Knife through the Skin and Membrana Adipofa, between the EreBor Penis and Acce¬ lerator Vrince Mu/cles ; when the Flu&uktion will be evident, and the PunCture of the Bladder more certain. Mcnfieur Fcubert, however, rejeCts the Propofition but, in my Opinion, without Efficient Motives ; for in - this manner the external Incifion may be made to extend below the ylnus, which, at the fame time, dividing the greater Part of the Tmnjvcrfalis Penis, will exceedingly fa¬ cilitate the Extraction of the Stone, and pre¬ vent that Contufion which accompanies fmall Incifions. M. Foubert himfelf fpeaks ot this Contufion ; and mentions the Refiftance of the Levator Ani, and the Tranfverfalls Penis Mu/cles, as great Impediments to the Ex¬ traction of the Stone; upon which account,